Voice in human–agent interaction: A survey

K Seaborn, NP Miyake, P Pennefather… - ACM Computing …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Social robots, conversational agents, voice assistants, and other embodied AI are
increasingly a feature of everyday life. What connects these various types of intelligent …

A survey on privacy issues and solutions for Voice-controlled Digital Assistants

LH Acosta, D Reinhardt - Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 2022 - Elsevier
With the development and increasing deployment of smart home devices, voice control
supports comfortable end user interactions. However, potential end users may refuse to use …

Leveraging large language models to power chatbots for collecting user self-reported data

J Wei, S Kim, H Jung, YH Kim - Proceedings of the ACM on Human …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Large language models (LLMs) provide a new way to build chatbots by accepting natural
language prompts. Yet, it is unclear how to design prompts to power chatbots to carry on …

Towards mutual theory of mind in human-ai interaction: How language reflects what students perceive about a virtual teaching assistant

Q Wang, K Saha, E Gregori, D Joyner… - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Building conversational agents that can conduct natural and prolonged conversations has
been a major technical and design challenge, especially for community-facing …

[HTML][HTML] The human takes it all: Humanlike synthesized voices are perceived as less eerie and more likable. evidence from a subjective ratings study

K Kühne, MH Fischer, Y Zhou - Frontiers in neurorobotics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Background: The increasing involvement of social robots in human lives raises the question
how humans perceive social robots. Little is known about human perception of synthesized …

Understanding circumstances for desirable proactive behaviour of voice assistants: The proactivity dilemma

N Zargham, L Reicherts, M Bonfert, ST Voelkel… - Proceedings of the 4th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The next major evolutionary stage for voice assistants will be their capability to initiate
interactions by themselves. However, to design proactive interactions, it is crucial to …

Eliciting and analysing users' envisioned dialogues with perfect voice assistants

ST Völkel, D Buschek, M Eiband, BR Cowan… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We present a dialogue elicitation study to assess how users envision conversations with a
perfect voice assistant (VA). In an online survey, N= 205 participants were prompted with …

Voice assistants and older people: some open issues

S Sayago, BB Neves, BR Cowan - … of the 1st International Conference on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Voice Assistants (VAs) like Amazon Echo and Apple Siri are an increasingly popular way of
interacting with a range of applications. VAs are also currently gaining traction in the HCI …

[HTML][HTML] The methodology of studying fairness perceptions in Artificial Intelligence: Contrasting CHI and FAccT

N Van Berkel, Z Sarsenbayeva, J Goncalves - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The topic of algorithmic fairness is of increasing importance to the Human–Computer
Interaction research community following accumulating concerns regarding the use and …

Metaphors in voice user interfaces: a slippery fish

S Desai, M Twidale - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We explore a range of different metaphors used for Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) by
designers, end-users, manufacturers, and researchers using a novel framework derived …